Synodic month length 29.61 days

Length of current 179 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 33 minutes. It is 58 minutes shorter than next lunation 180 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 49 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 13 July 2014 Sunday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠144.1°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠144.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠169.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon in perigee

Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 08:27, this is 12 days after last apogee on 30 June 2014 at 19:09 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 28 July 2014 at 03:27 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 358 259 km

This perigee Moon is 358 259 km(222 612 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 249 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 097 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

7 days after its ascending node on 6 July 2014 at 09:50 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 18 July 2014 at 21:21 in ♈ Aries.

Draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

2 days after previous South standstill on 10 July 2014 at 17:29 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.982°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.934° in the next northern standstill on 23 July 2014 at 15:36 in ♊ Gemini.